BOULDER – As family and friends prepared to bury 6-year-old
JonBenet Ramsey, police yesterday revealed a few select details
about their investigation into her murder, including the fact
the girl’s adult half-brother and half-sister were out of the
state when the crime was committed.

Police also said yesterday that they have blood, hair and
handwriting samples from John Bennett Ramsey, JonBenet’s father.
Similar samples have been taken from the girl’s siblings and
family friends, both male and female.

Previously, police had said that such samples were taken only
from the girl’s 9-year-old brother, Burke, and 20-year-old
half-brother, John Andrew Ramsey.

Neither JonBenet’s father nor her mother, Patricia Ramsey,
was interviewed by police before they left to bury their
daughter in their former hometown of Atlanta, according to
police. Funeral services were set for 10 a.m. today in Atlanta.

“”It wasn’t an appropriate time to question them,” said city
spokeswoman Leslie Aaholm. “”But the father did provide the
nontestimonial evidence. He has been cooperative.”

Ramsey also has been temporarily replaced as president of
Access Graphics, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp.

Lockheed said it has named Gary Mann, a Lockheed executive in
the company’s Orlando, Fla., office, as acting president for the
Boulder computer distribution company.

Access Graphics vice president Laurie Wagner said Boulder
executives are running the company, but Mann is “”available if
needed.”

“”Mr. Mann is John’s boss at Lockheed Martin,” Wagner said.
“”The executive team has all the operational bases covered, but
Lockheed Martin has chosen to appoint an acting president.”

Lockheed Martin spokesman Evan McCollum said Ramsey was
temporarily replaced so the company did not have to bother him
about business matters as he grieved.

“”This is a terrible time. His daughter has just died,”
McCollum said.

JonBenet was found strangled in the basement of her family’s
Boulder home on Thursday afternoon, the day after Christmas.

At 5:52 that morning, her mother had phoned 911 and reported
that her young daughter had been kidnapped and that there was a
ransom note.

Police have offered little detail about the crime, declining
to reveal whether the girl suffered other injuries, whether a
weapon was used, how she was strangled, or even exactly where
the body was found in the basement.

No one has been detained in the case, no one is expected to
flee the country, nor has any one been ruled out as a suspect.

“”We’re just looking. We’re not closing down our options,”
said Boulder police Detective Sgt. Larry Mason, who is leading
30 officers in the investigation.

“”For the integrity of the case, there is a lot of evidence
and information that they cannot release at this time,” Aaholm
said. “”Everything will at some point be made public.”

Police also continued their search yesterday of the Ramsey
home at 755 15th St. near Chautauqua Park. Aaholm said police
don’t know when the search will be completed.

Items taken from the home during the police search and the
hair, blood and handwriting samples are being sent to the
Colorado Bureau of Investigation laboratory for analysis, Aaholm
said.
“”Right now, we have one piece of evidence we’re working
on,” CBI Director Carl Whiteside said yesterday afternoon.

He declined to disclose what that evidence was but said that
Boulder law-enforcement officials were to confer with CBI
representatives about other evidence they have collected and
what they anticipate submitting for analysis.

A few more details also emerged yesterday about the case.

It was confirmed that a handwritten ransom note found in the
house demanded $118,000, which observers suggested was an
unusual amount for a kidnapper to demand.

It also was confirmed that John Ramsey found his daughter’s
body, but investigators wouldn’t say exactly where it was
concealed.

It was also confirmed that there were no signs of forced entry
into the house.

The owners of Boulder’s Sterling University Peaks apartments, who this summer were cited for illegally subdividing 92 bedrooms in the complex, have reached an agreement to settle the case for $410,000, the city announced Thursday.